A Handbook Of Old Chinese Phonology

Author : William H. Baxter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110857085

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A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology by William H. Baxter Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Zhongwei Shen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107135840

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A Phonological History of Chinese by Zhongwei Shen Pdf

A one-stop, comprehensive account of the key developments in the phonological history of Chinese.

Author : Axel Schuessler
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824863623

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Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese by Axel Schuessler Pdf

Although long out of date, Bernard Karlgren’s (1957) remains the most convenient work for looking up Middle Chinese (ca. A.D. 600) and Old Chinese (before 200 B.C.) reconstructions of all graphs that occur in literature from the beginning of writing (ca. 1250 B.C.) down to the third century B.C. In the present volume, Axel Schuessler provides a more current reconstruction of Old Chinese, limiting it, as far as possible, to those post-Karlgrenian phonological features of Old Chinese that enjoy some consensus among today’s investigators. At the same time, the updating of the material disregards more speculative theories and proposals. Schuessler refers to these minimal forms as "Minimal Old Chinese" (OCM). He bases OCM on Baxter’s 1992 reconstructions but with some changes, mostly notational. In keeping with its minimal aspect, the OCM forms are kept as simple as possible and transcribed in an equally simple notation. Some issues in Old Chinese phonology still await clarification; hence interpolations and proposals of limited currency appear in this update. Karlgren’s Middle Chinese reconstructions, as emended by Li Fang-kuei, are widely cited as points of reference for historical forms of Chinese as well as dialects. This emended Middle Chinese is also supplied by Schuessler. Another important addition to Karlgren’s work is an intermediate layer midway between the Old and Middle Chinese periods known as "Later Han Chinese" (ca. second century A.D.) The additional layer makes this volume a useful resource for those working on Han sources, especially poetry. This book is intended as a "companion" to the original Grammata Serica Recensa and therefore does not repeat other information provided there. Matters such as English glosses and references to the earliest occurrence of a graph can be looked up in Grammata Serica Recensa itself or in other relevant dictionaries. The great accomplishment of this companion volume is to update an essential reference and thereby fulfill the need for an accessible and user-friendly source for citing the various historically reconstructed stages of Chinese.

Author : San Duanmu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199215782

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The Phonology of Standard Chinese by San Duanmu Pdf

This comprehensive study of Chinese phonology covers both factual description and theoretical analyses. In addition, efforts have been made to avoid unecessary jargon and to introduce relevant theories in a non-technical way.

Author : William H. Baxter,Laurent Sagart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199945375

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Old Chinese by William H. Baxter,Laurent Sagart Pdf

This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the language of the earliest Chinese classical texts (1st millennium BCE).

Author : Dong Tonghe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000909586

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Historical Phonology of Chinese by Dong Tonghe Pdf

As an important introduction to the phonological history of Chinese, this title explores the phonological systems of the Chinese language and explains basic concepts, materials and methodologies. Unlike many historical accounts, this book adopts a reverse chronological sequence – starting with the phonology of Modern Mandarin and modern Chinese dialects, then looking back on Early Mandarin and Middle Chinese, and ultimately ending with Old Chinese phonology. This arrangement makes the book reasonably approachable to both professionals and general readers, building up knowledge along an ascending order of difficulty, from familiar, observable facts to theoretical, speculative hypotheses. Based on the extant studies and two essential types of rhyme materials, the book reconstructs the speech sounds of Middle and Old Chinese, in terms of initials, finals and tones. It also analyses the transition and evolution of phonological systems of the Chinese language in different periods. Marking the beginning of historical Chinese phonological studies and drawing on modern Western linguistics, this book will serve as an essential read for students and researchers of Chinese language, Chinese linguistics and especially historical Chinese phonology.

Author : Tonghe Dong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : 1032533145

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Historical Phonology of Chinese by Tonghe Dong Pdf

"As an important introduction to the phonological history of Chinese, this title explores the phonological systems of the Chinese language and explains basic concepts, materials, and methodologies. Unlike many historical accounts, this book adopts a reverse chronological sequence - starting with the phonology of Modern Mandarin and modern Chinese dialects, then looking back on Early Mandarin and Middle Chinese, and ultimately ending with Old Chinese phonology. This arrangement makes the book reasonably approachable to both professionals and general readers, building up knowledge along an ascending order of difficulty, from familiar, observable facts to theoretical, speculative hypotheses. Based on the extant studies and two essential types of rhyme materials, the book reconstructs the speech sounds of Middle and Old Chinese, in terms of initials, finals and tones. It also analyses the transition and evolution of phonological systems of the Chinese language in different periods. Marking the beginning of historical Chinese phonological studies and drawing on modern Western linguistics, this book will serve as an essential read for students and researchers of Chinese language, Chinese linguistics, and especially historical Chinese phonology"--

Author : William S.-Y. Wang,Chaofen Sun
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199856336

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The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics by William S.-Y. Wang,Chaofen Sun Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.

Author : Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780774843379

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Middle Chinese by Edwin G. Pulleyblank Pdf

Published in the early part of this century, Bernhard Karlgren's classic work Etudes sur la phonologie chinoise laid the foundation in western sinology for the scientific reconstruction of Chinese pronunciation. In this present study E.G. Pulleyblank gives the first full-scale review of Karlgren's work, taking into account advances in knowledge over the past fifty years in both the history of the Chinese language and in general linguistic theory.

Author : Laurent Sagart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236906

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The Roots of Old Chinese by Laurent Sagart Pdf

The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume. It is argued that a proper understanding of Old Chinese morphology is essential in correctly reconstructing the phonology. Based on evidence from word-families, modern dialects and related words in neighboring languages, Old Chinese words are claimed to consist of a monosyllabic root, to which a variety of derivational affixes attached. This made Old Chinese typologically more like modern languages such as Khmer, Gyarong or Atayal, than like Middle and modern Chinese, where only faint traces of the old morphology remain. In the first part of the book, the author proposes improvements to Baxter's system of reconstruction, regarding complex initials and rhymes, and then reviews in great detail the Old Chinese affixal morphology. New proposals on phonology and morphology are integrated into a coherent reconstruction system. The second part of the book consists of etymological studies of important lexical items in Old Chinese. The author demonstrates in particular the role of proportional analogy in the formation of the system of personal pronouns. Special attention is paid to contact phenomena between Chinese and neighboring languages, and — unlike most literature on Sino-Tibetan — the author identifies numerous Chinese loanwords into Tibeto-Burman. The book, which contains a lengthy list of reconstructions, an index of characters and a general index, is intended for linguists and cultural historians, as well as advanced students.

Author : Zenone Volpicelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044060300639

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Chinese Phonology by Zenone Volpicelli Pdf

Author : Zenone Volpicelli
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293682705

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Chinese Phonology by Zenone Volpicelli Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Chinese Phonology: An Attempt To Discover The Sounds Of The Ancient Language And To Recover The Lost Rhymes Of China Zenone Volpicelli Printed at the China Gazette Office, 1896 Chinese language

Author : Zenone Volpicelli
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0266185193

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Chinese Phonology by Zenone Volpicelli Pdf

Excerpt from Chinese Phonology: An Attempt to Discover the Sounds of the Ancient Language and to Recover the Lost Rhymes of China HE publication of this essay is mainly due to the encouragement of Mr. A. Von Rosthorn: during a discussion on the second series of rhyme-tables contained in the introduction of K'ang-hsi's Dictionary, I commu micated certain views which I had long held on an obscure point in those important tables. My opinions were considered by Mr. Von Rosthorn of sufficient import ance to induce me to undertake an exhaustive enquiry on the different dialects of China With the material industriously collected by Mr. Parker and inserted in Mr. Giles' Dictionary. The first results of my studies are contained in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Chenqing Song
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89103208575

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Some Issues in Old Chinese Phonology by Chenqing Song Pdf

Author : ZENONE. VOLPICELLI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103321812X

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CHINESE PHONOLOGY by ZENONE. VOLPICELLI Pdf